“Look at this picture I took of us,” I said, as I turned my iPhone to Robert and showed him my latest Instagram post. “I didn’t know how to caption it, so I didn’t write anything.” “Write, ‘I am not alone,’” he said. “They think you are alone.”
Insight and inspiration on the Christian faith and from a Gen X blogger including the connection between God and religion and Generation X.
Hear Young People Sing Old Hymns (Fountainview Academy)
Happy Sunday! Here are some beautiful old hymns sung by students from Fountainview Academy, located in southern British Columbia, Canada. I especially love the first one. It’s a hymn I sung so many times growing up, I Know Whom I Have Believed. It was sung at Eric’s funeral in October 1985. The hymn’s title comes […]
Mary Undoer of Knots Novena Begins Tomorrow
Mary Undoer of Knots Pray For Us Mother of fair love, I look to you. Take into your hands the ribbon of my life, and see the snarl of knots that keeps me bound to sin, anxiety, and hopelessness. I beg you, Mother, by your powerful intercession and long fingers of love and grace, undo […]
New Rosary Prayer App for Children
It’s Turtle Tuesday, time to talk about the Rosary, motherhood and Generation Z, the Homelander Generation. For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy. — From What Is Prayer, The Catechism of […]
The Locust Years
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten. –Joel 2:25 I’ve managed to come a long way, even though I’ve never won very big. Just look at the little girl on the far left in the above news clipping. That’s me in 1977, getting recognition for coming in second place […]
Wearing Veils To Mass: A Sign of Devotion to Jesus
What Happened To Wearing Veils to Mass? Wearing veils to Mass is a calling, not a mandate. Still, it is a beautiful tradition. On Easter Sunday, my husband Robert and son Sullivan talked Bridgette, our 10-year-old, into wearing her mantilla. (That’s another word for a chapel veil.) She’s worn it a few times before, and […]
A Prayer for the Ages
In 1972, and at the age of five, I was hospitalized for four days at Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina, California. When I awoke from surgery, I was alone in my room and was so sedated, I thought my arm, which I had broken, was a monster. I thought the metal clips, […]
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